CMP.10:4.1 - Start from the operations and their conditions

List the operations needed by the computation, including their inputs and returned results. Distinguish membership, enumeration, selection by order, aggregation, insertion, deletion and value replacement when their requirements differ. Include whether answers need original identities or only values.

Describe the anticipated operation sequence or range of workloads. A fixed dataset with many queries differs from a changing stream. If the mix is unknown, compare alternatives over the plausible range instead of inventing one universal average.

State which resources constrain the work: storage, worst-case response, total running time, memory transfers or communication. Include the required output size; listing k distinct items takes work to produce those k items under an ordinary explicit-output model.